slate.com — It's September, which means parents everywhere are loading the fridge with healthy food, vowing that this year they will fix their kids a tasty, nutritious, made-with-love lunch every day. This usually lasts about a week. Slate chose nine prepackaged lunches that kids eat and ranked them on how bad they are.
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thomasprebbleSep 19, 2006
School served lunches arn't any better.
catalystghostSep 19, 2006
Buried for the fact that there was an annoying pop-up that you can't close, and scrolled down with the screen so I can't read the article. As for school lunches, yeah, they pretty much suck. I don't know about the nutritional value of it all, but it tastes like s**t. All of it. The burgers are the only things that even taste slightly okay, but we only get those every once in a while.
Closed AccountSep 19, 2006
i thought these things were because kids liked messing about and making the things themselves, not because parent's didn't have ten minutes to put together a better packed lunch.anybody who looks for nutrition in these sort of products is way off the mark.
vdigSep 19, 2006
These lunches are really disgusting.When the kids get so sick that they can't reproduce before they reproduce, then the problem will solve itself.Either that, or we need legislation to protect the people from themselves.I work with a lot of young superobese people. One of them has stretch marks on her forearms. She eats garbage constantly while on the job. I doubt she will live past 35.
missflibblesSep 19, 2006
I need to get out of this country. I don't like American breakfast foods.I need something warm and easy on my stomach, not something freezing cold and covered in sugar, or something swimming in its own fat.Yeah, tempura and tonkatsu are fried, but the Japanese seem to be doing the fried things more in moderation than the US and UK, even. Shoyu is way salty, but don't Japanese brands tend to have less salt than their western equivalents?
aplusbiSep 19, 2006
In the very short span of about fifty years, we've allowed our politicians to do something remarkably stupid: turn America's food-policy decisions over to corporate lobbyists, lawyers and economists. These are people who could not run a watermelon stand if we gave them the melons and had the Highway Patrol flag down the customers for them--yet, they have taken charge of the decisions that direct everything from how and where food is grown to what our children eat in school. - Jim Hightower
atgmaildotcomJan 6, 2009
"yeah luv, give them fags and alchopops while you?re at it!" -- I had to stop for a few moments in awe of how British that sentence was.
sjessenNov 13, 2009
I agree with aplusbi; it's time that we actually did something about school lunches. There's actually a bill on that in Congress right now -- you can vote on it at politivote.com; just search for "school lunch". We really do need to do something.